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Schadenfreude. #WordOfTheYear #AI
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"slop": 2025 ADS Word of the Year
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10 January 2026 The American Dialect Society’s (ADS’s) selection for its 2025 Word of the Year (WOTY) is slop , that is “low-quality, high-quantity content, most typically produced by generative AI; also as a combining form for anything lacking valued produced in mass quantities.” It’s seen in wor
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• Lynne Murphy (University of Sussex)
• John Kelly (Mashed Radish)
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